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Carol · Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

Does anyone know how to display Chinese characters in GTK+?
Previously i tried to use DrawString in directfb library but still failed to display.
Can anyone please kindly advise?
Your help is highly appreciated!Thank you!

dreblen · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:34 pm Post subject:

if the locale is set to Chinese and you've set up your program for gettext, won't pango do that for you?
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove#head-fb30c82ea7fb6a9850b8998ac89d716a9d9b0a84

Carol · Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 2

Hi Dreblen,
now i can display chinese string!Thanks a lot!

gtkguan · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:09 pm Post subject:

you may use g_locale_to_utf8()function, just like this:
first, definite a function:

Code: (C)
1 2 3 4	char _(char string) { return(g_locale_to_utf8(string, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL)); }

then, call this function like:

Code: (C)
1	label = gtk_label_new(_("Chinese characters"));

you may refer g_locale_to_utf8 function in GLib Reference Manual.